EasyDiscuss 4 Stable Release

Sylvie Monday, 25 April 2016 EasyDiscuss

After several months and over 1000 commits, we are really happy announce that we have release EasyDiscuss 4 today.

If you are with us for long enough, you might have realized that we are really behind schedule prior to this release, as the dev team had to refactor the entire code base in which was time consuming. :( We really appreciate the kind patience and support we have during each testing phase.

So without further ado, here's the list of cool features that you can expect from EasyDiscuss 4:

Discussion View or Forum View

There's no limitation for your site. With the new EasyDiscuss 4, site moderator now have the option to choose between a simple discussion platform or an advanced support and ticketing system.

Themes

Improved Administration

Equipped your forums with the all new EasyDiscuss 4 administration interface. The new improved back-end dashboard has all the tools you need to better administrate your site more effectively.

Site moderators can now post discussions from the back-end without needing to do so from the front-end.

Company Workflow

EasyDiscuss 4 has this neat feature whereby is ideal for any sites operating with multiple timezone and notify site users different the public holidays in which your country observes.

More Autoposting Places

EasyDiscuss 4 can increase your social presence with the all new must have integration such as Gist, LinkedIn, Slack, Wunderlist, Telegram bot.

Not to forget, JFBConnect integration enables you to use the login system of most of the popular social media such as Facebook, Twitter, linkedIn and many more.

Moderation Tools

As this feature was frequently request before, EasyDiscuss 4 can now have the ability to ban specific users permanently or for a short period of time.

Conversations

EasyDiscuss 4 has an engaging and interactive conversation layout for site users.

Email Digest

Site users are now able to receive emails for a specific range of time (daily, weekly, and monthly basis) instead of getting new notifications for every action performed on site.

Prioritizing Tickets

We truly believe this feature is essential for any advanced support and ticketing system there this feature is a must have in EasyDiscuss 4. This enable site users to mark their discussion or tickets as high priority when immediate attention is required.

Cloud Integration: Amazon S3

EasyDiscuss 4 simplifies extensive file management by storing attachments of your site with the built-in cloud storage integration, Amazon S3. Now there's no need to worry of a full disk space anymore.

Star Ratings and Improved Point System

EasyDiscuss 4 can now rate their favorite posts with Star ratings which is similar to EasyBlog.

Not to mention, site moderators can also set different points for specific action performed on site with the new improved point systems.

Anonymous Posting

We respect users privacy therefore in EasyDiscuss 4, site users have the ability to post their discussion anonymously. Now your guest users can be assured that their identity are kept secret!

Get a whopping 30% discount

To celebrate the release of EasyDiscuss 4, we are offering a big 30% discount across all EasyDiscuss plans. This coupon code is for a limited time offer and valid till 29 April 2016.

"Bubbles is only available for the Developer edition"
I would hope that is better explained somewhere than here in the forums - right now the 'advertisement' page says
"EasyDiscuss 4 has now 7 awesome themes which includes Wireframe, Dark, Bubbles, Flatt, Pinter, Timeless and Zinc."

"Bubbles" may just be the single layout someone would want before purchase - it could be 'confusing'.. especially with the "Money Back" promise.. And then there's another comment I have..

"WHY" dangle a carrot to get people to purchase $120 more than they may need... I don't want '5' domains.. but I may want the template 'Bubbles'. Please consider offering 'Bubbles' as a single template at a 'reasonable' price.. and changing the 'advertisement to reflect 'exactly' what someone is buying"

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Guest - Gabriele

Unfortunately, EasyDiscuss 4 does not support Tapatalk currently. Could you send in your ideas here: http://stackideas.com/voices/easydiscuss please? And who knows it could be implemented for the next release?

Looking forward to the upgrade. So far the products and support you provide have been excellent. Regarding the discounted subscription renewal offer, will this add a year to my current renewal date, or will this provide a year's subscription starting now?

Thanks, Sylvie, that's great! You're right, Anthony, but I ask because a former supplier didn't run their promotions that way. That's why they're a former supplier. Stack Ideas has been top notch all the way.

Would you have any ideas for how this can be easily achieved? Maybe making a permanent placeholder router.php for com_kunena might be simple, which will use some basic logic to push the same category ids and itemids to Easydiscuss?

The Kunena URL structure for posts is generally:
index.php?option=com_kunena&view=topic&catid=9&id=1234

Where id is the unique ID assigned to each single post, and catid is the parent category of the post. Does EasySocial work in a similar manner in its URL structure?

When EasyDiscuss migrates from Kunena, does it use the same post 'id' number that Kunena uses, or does it use its own numbering scheme? (i.e., would com_kunena&id=1000 become com_easydiscuss&id=1000 or another number?)

EasyDiscuss was a perfect Joomla component to built a website like http://stackoverflow.com/ but its now changing into forum which i think forum is for developers who wants to provide support for their users. Don't forget that Kunena is a FREE forum component for Joomla.

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